Quotes About Culture

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

There's no cultural revolution by mistake.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

I subconsciously mimic whomever I'm talking to, so I've been mistaken for a Canadian, a South American, and somebody from the West Country.

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

Unfortunately, in our country, crying is mistaken for good acting.

Though I'm Punjabi, I'm often mistaken to be a Mexican or Spaniard.

This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes.

I always feel like people misunderstand the difference between an Asian story and an Asian-American story. That's completely different, too. I have friends who grew up in Asia, and our experiences are so different. Even though we might look the same, I feel like being Asian and then being Asian-American is completely different.

My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are.

The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.

As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to, like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel.

What I want to tell people is that you can mix the culture a little bit and it's not always appropriation.

There's this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It's a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American.

I am a Bengali. My mother is from Mangalore so it's a mix of both cultures at home.

I think there's this idea that if we put up a play with all African-Americans or all Latinas, or even if we mix it up, then it won't really sell to a mainstream audience. At the end of the day, what's going to drive the story being told is what's going to drive people to the seats.

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts.

I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.

Britain is not just One Direction, Little Mix, and James Bay. There's Skepta killing it, there's Krept and Konan killing it.